Hear tenantspin at the South Pole

tenantspin have sent recordings of their webcasts to be included on a community radio station in Antarctica

22 January 2007

tenantspin is FACT's pioneering Collaboration Programme project,
one of the UK's leading community driven Internet TV channels -
co-managed by Arena Housing and city-wide tenants.

Responding to an appeal for music, radio art, documentaries,
plays and audio books, tenantspin put a collection of their
webcasts onto CD, sending it to Cape Town to meet a supply plane
taking it on to the South Pole. It's part of a project called
'Polar Radio', initiated by I-TASC (the Interpolar Transnational
Arts Science Constellation) and r a d i o q u a l i a - making it
Antarctic's first ever artist-run radio station. The first
prototype station began FM broadcasts on 29 December, in an area of
Antarctica called Dronning Maud Land, where South Africa maintains
their base.

Although Antarctica has no indigenous population, it does now
have a regular human presence hosting scientists from 27 countries.
Connecting the scientific community via radio, the audience in
Antarctica can tune in from their skidoos - snowmobiles used for
transport. The research phase of 'Polar Radio' is supported by Arts
Council England.